Nicholas Murray teaches strategy and policy at the
US Naval War College. He is the author of The Rocky Road to the
Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914.
Christopher Pringle is an academic publisher and a
former officer in the British Territorial Army. He is the author of
Bloody Big BATTLES! Rules for Wargaming the Late Nineteenth Century
and a supporting blog.
Clausewitz’s account of Napoleon’s 1796 Italian campaign is a
historical study of strategy, written in the late 1820s with the
intent of solving ‘strategic questions’ in the author’s quest for a
coherent theory of war. This new scholarly edition, carefully
translated and edited by Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle,
provides historians and students of strategy with a valuable tool
to better understand On War."" - Anders Palmgren, director of the
Joint Advanced Command and Staff Course, Swedish Defence
University
""History was the principal medium used by Carl von Clausewitz as
he developed the ideas that he expressed in On War. He wrote much
more of history than he did theory, and yet his historical writings
have struggled to find an English-language audience. This
translation of Clausewitz’s history of the 1796 Italian campaign,
Napoleon’s first triumph and therefore much studied by his
admirers, is to be warmly welcomed."" - Hew Strachan, author of
Clausewitz’s On War: A Biography
""The continued relevance of Clausewitz’s theories is well known;
what is less understood is the historical studies that led him to
these ideas. Never before translated into English, this book makes
readily accessible Clausewitz’s analysis of one of history’s
greatest minds through Napoleon’s formative campaign. Joining
well-known translations of Clausewitz’s histories of the 1812
invasion of Russian and the 1815 Waterloo campaigns, Napoleon’s
1796 Italian Campaign illustrates Clausewitz’s development of some
of his most critical concepts for the first time in English."" -
Mark T. Gerges, associate professor of Military History, US Army
Command and General Staff College
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